John Stivers – Carbon Sequestration

Video Transcript:

Carbon sequestration. There’s a fixed amount of carbon in the world and the trick is getting it in the right place and keeping it out of that wonderful little atmosphere that allows us to live on this planet. Now, that can be… That carbon can be in the emissions of our tailpipe on our car, or it can be in the tree behind me. And the objective is to capture it before it gets into the atmosphere, or to pull it out of the atmosphere by planting trees or potentially taking it and putting those emissions, say down in an oil well, where it’s trapped in the ground.